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The Maranao are the largest Muslim ethnic group in the Philippines, numbering over 840,000 people who live around Lake Lanao on Mindanao. They practice rice farming, metalworking, and woodworking as their main livelihoods. Like other Filipino Muslims, the Maranao differ from Christian Filipinos in that they follow Islamic customs for marriage, family, and land ownership through clans led by local datus. Their languages are closely related to those of central Philippines and part of the Austronesian language family.

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The Maranao are the largest Muslim ethnic group in the Philippines, numbering over 840,000 people who live around Lake Lanao on Mindanao. They practice rice farming, metalworking, and woodworking as their main livelihoods. Like other Filipino Muslims, the Maranao differ from Christian Filipinos in that they follow Islamic customs for marriage, family, and land ownership through clans led by local datus. Their languages are closely related to those of central Philippines and part of the Austronesian language family.

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Maranao, largest of the Muslim cultural-linguistic groups of the Philippines.

Numbering more than


840,000 in the late 20th century, they live around Lake Lanao on the southern island of Mindanao. Rice
farming is their main livelihood, along with metalworking and woodworking handicrafts.

Like the other Filipino Muslims, the Maranao differ markedly from the Christians, who make up the
overwhelming majority of the country’s population. Land is owned by the clan and controlled by local
leaders known as datus. The customs of marriage and the family are Islāmic. The languages of all the
Muslim groups are closely related to the languages of the central Philippines, which belong to the
Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages.

WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


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http://www.ethnicgroupsphilippines.com/people/ethnic-groups-in-the-philippines/maranao/

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